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ARNO BEER, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

- FOOD PBODUGT ANDEROGEfiE 0F MAWG am.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anuo BEER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pasadena, in the county of Les Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Composition of Matter and Process of Making Same, of which the following is a specification.

In the manufacture of starch from Indian com, the latter is steeped in a weak solution of 'sulfurous acid in water preparatory to grinding". Having thus been softened, the corn'is ground and "mixed with water. The hulls and germs are separated from the liquid formed, which. is known as starch milk and which is caused to flow over slightly inclined tables upon which the starch settles while the gluten is carried ofi by the liquid which flows from the lower end of the-starch table. Various methodsaare em loyed for starch tables, corn has been thrown away as waste until I discovered a method of making starch and cattle food as described in the specification formin part of Letters Patent 491,234, grante to me on February 7, 1893, and application for which was filed October 28, 1892, Serial Number 450,266. In said Letters Patent I have described a method for utilizing the soluble material of the corn, principally consisting of albuminoids, sugar and other carbohydrates, phosplhorus compounds and potassium salts. T e invention described in said Letters Patent is today exploited commercially on a large scale in the principal starch and glucose factories in this country.

In the specification forming part of the above Letters Patent, I have shown that it has been impossible heretofore to obtain these substances in a dry and concentrated form by the evaporation of the water in which they are dlssolved or suspended, because of the nature of the mass which remains after most of the water has been evaporated and which mass forms a viscous syrup which cannot be reduced to complete dryness without undergoing chemical changes, and which even when dried 'is hygroscopic and becomes sticky anddeliquescent. I continued my research in this direction and have now discovered means of recovering said roducts. The object of my present invention is to isolate, in a dry form, part of these valuable constituents of the corn es- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 12, 1908. serial No. @2,%0-

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Fatented March 9, 1909.

pecially the nitrogenous-phosphorus com pounds.

. In carrying out'my invention I prefer to proceed asfolloWs: The steeping water obtained in the ordinaryway by immersing corn in a dilute watery solution of sulfurous acid of a slightly elevated temperature, after having been withdrawn from the corn, is

heated to a temperature of approximately 200 degrees F, whereupon it is rendered alkaline, preferably by ammonia. Thus,

practically all of the nitrogenous-phosphorus odies are precipitated. This precipitate is. separated from the liquor by sultable means, such as filter presses, centrifugals and the like. It is then Washed with hot water and dried in a suitable apparatus until the moisture content has been reduced to approximately 10%. y I

Although containin traces of phosphates, which would naturally occur in. extracts, such as described above, the principal amount of phosphorus in my new product is present in a masked form, 4,. e., it cannot be discovered by the reagents ordinarily employed for the detection of phosphates.

ontinued boiling with concentrated mineral acids will on] phosphorus su upon incineration, be determined by the usual methods. 7

' My new roduct possesses the propertyof being read ily assimilated by living organisms, comparative experiments having shown that the use of my new product, in proper proportion, greatly facilitates fermentation stances into phosphates, but

partially break down my the total phosphorus may ated speed. My new product is, therefore, of great value as a yeast food,-not only on account of its high nitrogenous-phosphorus contents, but also because of its extraordinary degree of assimilability.

My new product is a grayish-white powder, containing usually from 2 to 3% of nitrogen and from 8 to 15% of phosphorus, being only slightly soluble in water and strong organic acids, substantially soluble in dilute acids and completely soluble in concentrated mineral acids.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is' 1. The new product derived from corn, consisting principally of nitrogen phosphorus compounds in a dry state, the phosphoruscontent of which can be determined y the molybdic method only after incinera- Q' mesm- .ti0n, While boiling with concentrated mineral its nitrogenous-phcsphorus compounds, ccn- 1O .acids partially breaks down the phosphorus sisting in heatini the steeping water, rendersubstances into phosphates; beings ightly ing the li uid al aline an isolatin the presoluble in water and strong organic acids, cipitate t us obtained, 'substantia y as desubstantially soluble in dilute acids and comscribed.

pletely soluble in concentrated mineral acids, ARNO BE HR. substantially as described. Witnesses:

2. The process of se arating from the ALVIN V. HUPFER,

steeping Water of corn t e principal part of i WILLIAM HUPFER. 

